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Business Leadership contains the best thinking from the biggest names in leadership on a wide range of subjects including ethics, dealing with change, vision setting, the heroic journey, the practices of leadership, and the work of leadership. With an introduction by James M. Kouzes- coauthor of the million-copy best-seller The Leadership Challenge- the author list of this invaluable resource reads like the who's who of business leadership. This extraordinary collection features chapters from Joseph L. Badaracco Jr., Warren Bennis, Kenneth H. Blanchard, Lee G. Bolman, Larry Bossidy, Richard Boyatzis, Susan Mitchell Bridges, William Bridges, Marcus Buckingham, Ram Charan, Joanne B. Ciulla, Donald O. Clifton, James C. Collins, Terrence E. Deal, Max De Pree, Stephen Drotter, Peter F. Drucker, Daniel Goleman, Robert K. Greenleaf, Victoria A. Guthrie, Gary Hamel, David A. Heenan, Ronald A. Heifetz, Paul Hersey, Frances Hesselbein, John P. Kotter, James M. Kouzes, Donald L. Laurie, Morgan W. McCall Jr., Annie McKee, Burt Nanus, James Noel, James O'Toole, Jerry I. Porras, Barry Z. Posner, Robert E. Quinn, Edgar H. Schein, Gretchen M. Spreitzer, Noel M. Tichy, Ellen Van Velsor, and Margaret J. Wheatley.

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This volume is compiled by the Jossey-Bass Business Management Series, which is the premier publisher of leadership books for the business audience.

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
What Is Leadership?	p. 1
Leadership Basics
Why Are Leaders Important?	p. 4
What Leaders Really Do	p. 29
Primal Leadership	p. 44
The "How to Be" Leader	p. 60
What Is Leadership?	p. 65
The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership	p. 72
Leadership Styles
Reframing Leadership	p. 86
Situational Leadership	p. 111
The Servant as Leader	p. 117
The Case for Co-Leaders	p. 137
Becoming a Leader	p. 161
The Heroic Journey	p. 163
Six Leadership Passages	p. 171
The Derailment Conspiracy	p. 189
The Traces of Talent	p. 213
Enhancing the Ability to Learn from Experience	p. 223
Developing Character	p. 249
Leadership Is a Relationship	p. 251
Honest Work	p. 268
Why Amoral Leadership Doesn't Work	p. 279
The Discipline of Building Character	p. 307
Reframing Ethics and Spirit	p. 330
Forming the Vision	p. 349
Where Tomorrow Begins: Finding the Right Vision	p. 351
What Is Our Mission?	p. 369
Clock Building, Not Time Telling	p. 373
Be Your Own Seer	p. 404
Making It Happen	p. 435
The Learning Leader as Culture Manager	p. 437
Five Disciplines for Unleashing the Power in Your Workforce	p. 461
The Gap Nobody Knows	p. 474
Change: The Capacity of Life	p. 496
The Fear of Change and Why Risk Is Necessary	p. 518
Leading Transition	p. 530
The Work of Leadership	p. 543
Notes	p. 569
Name Index	p. 589
Subject Index	p. 595
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